Thanks for analyzing and reporting this Anty,
What version of Apache Hadoop 1.x are you encountering this on? If
you've spotted the code issue on branch-1, please do log a HDFS JIRA
with some NN logs and your other details.
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Anty <anty....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:ALL
>
> In our cluster, we configure the NameNode to write to both local and NFS
> mounted directories. When the NFS mounted directory is inaccessible, the
> NameNode should keep running without error, but our namenode crash with
> following stack trace.
>
> 2013-04-02 23:35:21,535 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.Storage:
>> Removing storage dir /nfs2-mount/onest3/dfs/name
>> 2013-04-02 23:35:21,536 FATAL
>> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem: Unable to find edits
>> stream with IO error
>> java.lang.Exception: Unable to find edits stream with IO error
>> at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.fatalExit(FSEditLog.java:430)
>> at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.removeEditsStreamsAndStorageDirs(FSEditLog.java:519)
>> at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.logSync(FSEditLog.java:1139)
>> at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.completeFile(FSNamesystem.java:1641)
>> at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.complete(NameNode.java:689)
>> at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor21.invoke(Unknown Source)
>> at
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
>> at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:557)
>> at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1434)
>> at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1430)
>> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>> at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
>> at
>> org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1177)
>> at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:1428)
>> 2013-04-02 23:35:21,539 INFO
>> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG:
>>
>
> According to the stack trace, When NameNode tries to sync edit log, it does
> identify the mounted NFS directory is inaccessible, and attempt to remove
> it from the FSEditLog#editStreams. However, it found the edit stream
> corresponding to the mounted NFS has already been removed. Under this
> circumstance, NameNode just kill itself, aborted!
>
> After looking through the source code of HDFS, I found there is another
> code path of removing edit stream from FSEditLog#editStreams, which can
> cause above race condition. In method FSEditLog#logEdit
>
>
>> if (getNumEditStreams() < 1)
>> {
>> throw new AssertionError("No edit streams to log to");
>> }
>> long start = FSNamesystem.now();
>> for (int idx = 0; idx < editStreams.size(); idx++)
>> {
>> EditLogOutputStream eStream = editStreams.get(idx);
>> try
>> {
>> eStream.write(op, writables);
>> }
>> catch (IOException ioe)
>> {
>> removeEditsAndStorageDir(idx);
>> idx--;
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
> The cause of this race condition lie in FSEditLog#logSync method, there are
> two steps in FSEditLog#logSync
>
> 1. Do sync operation, if one edit stream is accessible, put it into
> error stream list.(un-synchronized)
> 2. Delete error stream from FSEditLog#editStreams(synchronized)
>
> Step #1 isn’t synchronized, so there is a possibility that after step#1 and
> before step #2 the error stream has already been removed from other thread
> by invoking FSEditLog#logEdit
>
> If this was exactly a bug, my proposal fix is in method FSEditlog#logsync
> ignore or print some warning message instead of aborting the namenode when
> error edit stream doesn't exist in FSEditLog#editStreams
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Anty Rao
--
Harsh J
